Hamstring

Cripple your foe with a precise slash. — In-game description

Hamstring

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand sword

Activ. type

Chain

Sequence

 →  → 

Game link

API

14363

“

0.25¼  

Hamstring

Cripple your foe with a precise slash.

 Damage: 440 (1.2)^?

 Damage: 244 (0.666)^?

 Cripple (1s): -50% Movement Speed

 Bleeding (6s): 132 Damage

 Number of Targets: 3

 Range: 130

— In-game description

Related traits

Arms

• Bloodlust — You have a chance to inflict bleeding on critical hits, and bleeds that you apply last longer.

Tactics

• Leg Specialist — Immobilize a target when you cripple them with a skill. Deal increased strike damage to foes affected with movement-impairing conditions.

Notes

• This skill cleaves.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Damage multiplier increased from 1 to 1.2.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Autoattack Chain: Reduced power coefficients from 0.6/0.6/1.0 to 0.4/0.4/0.666
July 10, 2018	Bleeding duration of this skill has been reduced from 8 seconds to 6 seconds.
May 08, 2018	The damage of this skill is no longer split between game modes and will now use the higher 66% damage increase in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Increased overall damage by 22% in PvP and WvW.
February 22, 2017	This attack now applies 1 stack of bleeding for 8 seconds in addition to its previous effects.
June 25, 2013	This skill has been moved to the end of the skill chain. Reduced the cripple duration to 1 second.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Hamstring has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.